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DD Form 1587 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1587, Record of Congressional Review, April 2016, used to Record of Congressional Transcript Review. The DD prefix is the operative fact. It means one blank serves every military department — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction — plus the defense agencies and combatant commands. No branch variant exists.
Requirement traces to not stated; the form belongs to not stated. Everything about schedule sits below that in local instruction, which is where to ask if a date matters.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
The set is PDF. Size: 1 pages, about 19 fields.
Nothing costs anything here. Work in a full desktop pdf application rather than a browser preview; field behaviour in browsers is unreliable.
What the form asks for
- 3. To (in turn): a. 1st office.
- 4. Date action must be completed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day). a. First office.
- 3.b. 2nd office.
- 4.b. Second office completion date.
- 4.c. Completion date for Chief, OFOISR.
- 7. Pages: beginning number.
- Thru: Ending page number.
- 8. Hearing. Press space bar to mark X in first box if closed, second box if open.
- 11. Forwarding certificate: date.
- 1.b. Agency.
- 1. Transcript action monitor. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 1.c. Telephone (include area code).
- 2. Date received from Congress (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5. Description of document committee/subcommittee.
- 6. Hearing date and subject.
- 9. Classification.
- 10. Remarks.
- 11.b. Office.
- 11.a. Signature.
Start by matching the printed date to not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared folders for years. Because the Department reissues to all services in one action, nobody is still accepting the previous layout by local custom.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
Related forms are found by number alone. The DD sequence is one unified Department-wide series, so a cited number resolves to exactly one document with no branch qualifier needed.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when notice language is amended. None of that reaches you. Checking not stated at download is the entire defence, and it is cheaper than repeating a submission.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1587?
- DD Form 1587, Record of Congressional Review, April 2016
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?